Frieze Los Angeles
Late February· Santa Monica, California
Why the circuit stops here
The art market’s West Coast week, timed to awards season: collectors, studio money and celebrity buyers in the same tent, with the entertainment industry’s walls to fill.
The money signal
The one fair where the buyer of a seven-figure painting may also be on a billboard above it.
Book around the stop
with GetYourGuideThe fair sits at Santa Monica Airport; the coast is ten minutes west.
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Journal
Latest dispatches and guides from this stop.
Frieze Los Angeles: the essential briefing, 25 October
West Coast art week returns to Santa Monica in late February. A scheduled analysis of the intersection between Hollywood capital and seven figure canvas acquisitions.
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Read articleWho's there
Hollywood money, tech collectors driving up from Silicon Valley accounts, LA’s museum boards.
How they arrive
- Private aviation is the default: expect FBO slots and hotel helipads to be the real constraint, not tickets.
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